As she played with her 2-year-old granddaughter, Ella, and fed pigeons in downtown Beirut, Leila Chahre told NBC News she just wanted peace.

Ordinary people like her and her family end up suffering, she said of the most recent flareup of violence between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israel.

Many city residents have sought refuge in the square after the Israeli military warned residents of four major suburbs in southern Beirut to evacuate last night so it could target Hezbollah positions inside the city.

“It was terrible,” she said when asked about the evacuations, adding that more than 30 people from her and her husband’s family were now crammed into a three-bedroom home as they waited for an end to the violence.